Ph.D. Alumni

2024

Pearl Li

Field of Study: Industrial Organization, Market Design, Urban Economics Advisor(s): Paulo Somaini (Primary), Liran Einav, Matthew Gentzkow, Lanier Benkard Current Position: Federal Trade Commission

Jacob Light

Field of Study: Labor Economics, Public Economics Advisor(s): Caroline Hoxby (Primary), Nick Bloom, Petra Persson, Eric Hanushek Current Position: Hoover Institution, Fellow

Jonas Metzger

Current Position: Stanford Graduate School of Business, Postdoctoral Scholar

Rodrigo Naumann

Field of Study: Industrial Organization, Energy Economics Current Position: Cornerstone Research

Alain Pineda

Field of Study: Labor, Development, Public Current Position: Banco de México

Xinyao Qiu

Field of Study: Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Public Economics Advisor(s): Luigi Pistaferri (Primary), Petra Persson, Alessandra Voena Current Position: University of Hong Kong

Zhaonan Qu

Field of Study: Econometrics Advisor(s): Guido Imbens, Han Hong, Johan Ugander Current Position: Columbia University, Postdoctoral Scholar

Lorenzo Rigon

Field of Study: Macroeconomics, Finance Current Position: Two Sigma, Discretionary Macro

Field of Study: Development Economics, Political Economy Advisor(s): Katherine Casey (Co-primary), Arun Chandrasekhar (Co-primary), Jeremy Bowles, Melanie Morten Current Position: Stanford Impact Labs- Impact and Learning Manager

Kurt R. Sweat

Field of Study: Market Design, Health Economics, Industrial Organization Advisor(s): Alvin Roth (Primary), Frank Wolak, Paulo Somaini, Han Hong Current Position: UT Southwestern, The O'Donnell School of Public Health

Cem Tutuncu

Field of Study: Financial Economics, Macroeconomics Advisor(s): Monika Piazzesi (Co-primary), Martin Schneider (Co-primary), Hanno Lustig Current Position: Cornerstone Research

Mark P. Walsh

Field of Study: Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics Advisor(s): Arun Chandrasekhar (Primary), Pascaline Dupas, Melanie Morten Current Position: GiveWell, Senior Research Associate

Xuejie Yi

Field of Study: Industrial Organization, Health Economics Current Position: Pinterest

Chuan Yu

Field of Study: Industrial Organization, Health Economics Advisor(s): Liran Einav (Co-primary), Matthew Gentzkow (Co-primary), Michael Ostrovsky, Ali Yurukoglu Current Position: UNC-Chapel Hill

Parker Zhao

Field of Study: Public Economics, Behavioral and Experimental Economics Current Position: Stripe-Data Scientist

2023

Trevor Bakker

Field of Study: Public Economics, Household Finance, Labor Economics Advisor(s): Rebecca Diamond (Co-primary), Raj Chetty (Co-primary), Isaac Sorkin Current Position: US Census Bureau

Aniket Baksy

Field of Study: Macroeconomics, Labor Economics Advisor(s): Patrick Kehoe (Primary), Nick Bloom, Luigi Bocola, Elena Pastorino Current Position: University of Melbourne

Lukas Bolte

Field of Study: Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Microeconomic Theory Advisor(s): Gabriel Carroll (Co-primary), Muriel Niederle (Co-primary), B. Douglas Bernheim, Matthew Jackson Current Position: Tilburg University

Yue Cao

Field of Study: Industrial Organization, Public Economics, Applied Microeconomics Advisor(s): Liran Einav (Co-primary), Matthew Gentzkow (Co-primary), Pete Klenow Current Position: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (economics)

Daniele Caratelli

Field of Study: Macroeconomics Advisor(s): Patrick Kehoe (Primary), Adrien Auclert, Robert Hall, Elena Pastorino Current Position: Department of the Treasury